Reserve Bank Cuts OCR Amid Dairy Crisis

Posted 10:59am Sunday 20th March 2016

The Reserve Bank has cut the Official Cash Rate to 2.25 percent, the lowest it has ever been with predictions it could drop a further 25 basis points to 2 percent later this year.  Reserve Bank Governor, Mr Graeme Wheeler justified his decision for cutting rates by explaining that threats Read more...

Editorial | Issue 4

Posted 10:25am Sunday 20th March 2016

Dissapointingly this week the second flag referendum will finally come to an end. Personally I’m rather impartial to either flag, but for the past few months I’ve been increasingly amused by some of the antics and peculiar arguments surrounding the flag change project. Take for Read more...

New Zealand’s Greatest Batsman Passes Away

Posted 12:20pm Sunday 13th March 2016

After a prolonged fight against lymphoma, Martin Crowe, New Zealand’s greatest ever batsmen passed away last week in Auckland aged just 53.  A statement from his family headed “God Speed, Rest in Peace” said he had died peacefully, surrounded by family. Crowe was Read more...

Bloody Knife Found In O.J Simpson Case

Posted 11:46am Sunday 13th March 2016

The case against O.J Simpson in the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994 has taken another strange turn.  The discovery of a bloodied knife just last week buried on Simpson’s property offers hope of new insight into the unsolved murder twenty-two Read more...

High Ranking Islamic State Commander Believed Dead

Posted 11:44am Sunday 13th March 2016

One of Islamic States most infamous commanders may have been killed during targeted strikes by the United States in Syria.  Abu Omar al-Shishani, described by the pentagon as the groups ‘Minister of War’ was the target of a strike near the town of al-Shaddadi. The strike Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 11:04am Sunday 13th March 2016

For many years now, popular New Zealand band Six60 have been returning to Castle Street where the band was first formed. Each year the gig has been kept secret and been announced in an impromptu fashion, leading to many students living on and around Castle Street flocking to the event in large Read more...

Could This Finally Be The Warrior’s Year?

Posted 11:52am Sunday 6th March 2016

The arrival of Kiwi superstars Isaac Luke and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck have many of the Mt. Smart faithful licking their lips with the prospect of their first finals series in five years. Though 2015 promised a lot for the Warriors, a disastrous finish to the season losing star players such as Shaun Read more...

Highlanders Hit Early With Injuries

Posted 11:45am Sunday 6th March 2016

Highlanders will have to do without Waisake Naholo and Fumiaki Tanaka for at least the next month, or longer, due to injury. Naholo sustained a new fracture to the same leg that he injured before the World Cup last year. The injury occurred late in the game against the Blues and the fracture was Read more...

DiCaprio Bags An Oscar

Posted 11:09am Sunday 6th March 2016

After years and years of being denied the award many believe he has long deserved, Leonardo DiCaprio finally graced the stage at the 88th Academy Awards and mitted himself a golden Oscar for his role in The Revenant.  The Academy Awards, more affectionately known as the “Oscars” Read more...

Editorial | Issue 2

Posted 10:20am Sunday 6th March 2016

It’s been a week in which the University of Otago and, more so, the students associated have been the focus of national headlines and the debate that comes with it.  Many of the headlines have been centred on the University’s plans to install surveillance cameras in the student Read more...